Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

No.

 

I enjoy Dragon Age: Origins and my experience of MoWG is incomplete, but being *better* strikes me as rather unlikely when MoWG is like 60% Planescape: Torment with PC design sensibilities and Dragon Age: Origins is maybe 40% Baldur's Gate 2 with console encounters and combat. MoWG realizes a much more intriguing premise than a Darkspawn invasion could represent.

 

Elaborate please.

 

2009 is the year Knights of the Chalice was released. Why is there any question over what is the best RPG of 2009?

 

Because not everyone is a tacticfag?

 

Less people played it, plus only good for combatfags.

 

Mystical/metaphysical story with an emphasis on the personal, factions, and a grimy, hardboiled quest hub.

 

Is the writing anything close?
Seems i missed a gem here

 

Mysteries of Westgate is really banal with obnoxious companions. Also contains NWN2 combat which is so much worse when it comes to feel.

 

Hard to answer since the quality of the writing depends partly on the overall design and scope of the RPG. The scope in Mysteries of Westgate is smaller (think of the quest that puts the PC in with the Thieves Guild or Vampires in BG2, but bigger) than Planescape. The world isn't as large and variable and reactive as Planescape's. But some of what made Planescape intriguing is in its DNA.

It's also worth noting that I am enthusiastic about NWN2's OC. My word isn't reliable.

 

Way too much discussion about whether or not everything Bioware has done is shit. No reason to hide, I enjoy DA:O, though their other post BG2 games aren't for me. If they do something similar with DA:I I'll play that too. There isn't such an overabundance of cRPGs available that I'll overlook a decent game because of some flaws, which they all have in their own ways. I haven't played a game that isn't an RPG since like 1999 so there isn't really much to keep me going, because I'm a storyfag and not really a skilled gamer, and there just really isn't enough out there. I spend money on all these shit small kickstarters that don't amount to anything and I don't find buying bioware games at a discount any worse of an investment.

 

People are very "what have you done for me lately?" Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2 kind of sucked, so people are down on the whole company. Same with Piranha Bytes and and Risen 2. The best thing those companies can do to turn that around is release a good fucking game next time.

 

DA2 is a good game. ME3 not so much.

 

ME3 is the best of the trilogy all things considered. It has the most refined tps/spellcasting hybrid gameplay of them all.

 

I thought ME3's combat was probably the best of the trilogy, yeah. The story got pretty fucking derp though, and I remember being unimpressed with the environments. In any case general reaction to the game was somewhat poor, from what I have seen. And it was definitely poor with Dragon Age 2. So they need to earn back some good will with Inquisition, even from the more forgiving non-Codex RPG players.

 

Someone said it best I think earlier in the thread or somewhere else about ME1 excelling with Story, ME2 with companions, ME3 with gameplay or something.

 

Most of the butthurt over ME3 was over the endings or in other words, their little power fantasy being swept from underneath them. As far as the story goes, while moronic, actually advanced the main plot and wasn't a collection of inane daddy issues that had nothing to do with either the overarching plot or even the collector one(and which lead to most of ME3's plot issues). The (non)choices were no worse than ME2's by and large.

Say what? How is ME1 with it's lack of basic features of the TPS genre like rolling and going from cover to cover "refined"? And the RPG elements were pretty half-baked with clunky inventory management(with most drops being crap) and Shepard aiming like he had Parkinson's until sufficiently leveled, not to mention balance issues like how the pistol can be transformed into a pinpoint accurate LMG.

When it comes to choices, I grant you it had a real tangible impact as far as the smaller scale ones were concerned(ex. being able to avoid fights in certain cases) but the "big" choices like with the Rachni Queen had no real impacts, much like other such "epic" choices from ME2 and 3.

TLDR: Precisely this.

 

So, after I kind of fell in love with MotB, I thought about giving Storm of Zehir a chance. I know it's a Dungeon crawler and I am actually in a mood for this kind of game. So, it's either this or IWD2 (thoughts?)... Well, I thought I'll check who lead development of that game, cause I knew it were "The Other guys of Obsidian". Apparently, Lead Designer was Tony Evans (never heard of him) and I also found out he worked on DA2. Here's an interesting quote (I'm interested if he's actually right about his influence on DA3 - If so, I guess I'll founf out after playing SoZ if that's a good or bad thing...):

 

You are on drugs.

 

I think that's kind of his point. No one knew who he was until that piece of news.

 

Tony Evans is a bro. He worked on KOTOR2 and MotB.

 

Oh joy, how inspiring. I hope he contributed very little to DA2's design because every bit of design work done there was atrocious beyond repair.